and Johanna Lesar Perkovich, the youngest of their three sons. Both John and Jennie

were recent immigrants, part

of a large wave of southern Slavs. The section of Chisholm where Frank and his family
lived was called pig town because so many families raised pigs. It was on the southeastern
side of Chisholm, bordered by 5th and 6th Street on the south. One of Frank’s jobs
as a boy was to help raise the pigs. Frank had also a paper route for the Mesabi
Miner. Frank attended Roosevelt and Washington Grade Schools, and then finished at
Chisholm Junior